[Hindustan Times] What about anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh phobias, asks India at UN meet on Islamophobia

The article discusses India’s stance at a UN meeting on Islamophobia. The UN General Assembly adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution to declare March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. India expressed concern over the elevation of the phobia against one religion to such a level while excluding others.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, TS Tirumurti, expressed deep concern at the rise in instances of discrimination, intolerance, and violence against members of many religious communities in different parts of the world¹. He stated that phobias are not restricted to Abrahamic religions only.

Tirumurti noted that Hinduism has more than 1.2 billion followers, Buddhism more than 535 million, and Sikhism more than 30 million, and said the time had come to acknowledge the “prevalence of religiophobia, rather than single out just one”. He added that the resolution “may well end up downplaying the seriousness of phobias against all other religions”.

While explaining India’s position, Tirumurti cited what he contended were religion phobias that have affected the followers of non-Abrahamic religions, including “anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist and anti-Sikh phobias”. He also cited the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, “violation of gurudwara premises, massacre of Sikh pilgrims in gurudwara, attack on temples, glorification of breaking of idols in temples” and said these incidents “contribute to the rise of contemporary forms of religiophobia against non-Abrahamic religions”.

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